Mass Deduction (née scrapking)'s discussions

You base this on what? I worked at EB Games for years, and the majority of trade-ins went to hot new releases, often pre-orders in fact. Read more

Consider that the trade-in dollars those stores offered for those used games probably went to hot new releases at full price. Consider also that some of those games might not have been sold at full price if people hadn't been able to do trade-ins towards them. I know there are games I got at full price because of… Read more

Seriously, do you actually believe all that? This isn't some kind of satire, or reverse psychology, or something? I normally I agree with your posts, even hearted you a long time ago, but couldn't disagree with this more. Read more

Comment of the day, right here. Read more

Maybe the OP feels that people who wait and buy a game after a price drop are scum too. "How dare they not buy the game at full price?" he probably wails into the mirror. Read more

"Fine then. DON'T FUCKING BUY IT, you entitled, self-centered pricks. 38 Studios and every other company who implements an online pass don't have to listen to a fucking word of your whining." Read more

After the loss of a staff member, two would have been the minimum to count as an expansion. Four is more than I would have expected, however. Five with the new columnist. Read more

The game's logo seems inspired by the last-gen NARC game more than anything else I could name. Some of the in-game presentation seems inspired by classic NARC. It was a Williams game originally, as I recall.

He's Australian. Read more

Innovative producst are a double-edged sword. People complain about Sony not innovating, then complain when they create new standards unnecessarily (ie. Memory Stick). Read more

Obligatory "The Last Ninja" on Commodore 64. Consider that this music was created on a machine first released in *1982* and be amazed at it's ability compared to the 8-bit competition of its day. The C64 was decent in its graphical ability for the day, but absolutely head-and-shoulders above the competition when it…

Agreed... but it raises the question, why didn't Howard Stringer do this when the misdirection at Sony suggests it was so badly needed and for so long? Read more

Interesting how they don't put a space between "Xbox" and "360" in the video titling ("Xbox360"). I'm also not sure why there's a slash between Xbox360 and "Kinect". Interesting. Read more

Certainly Ken Kutaragi was the biggest cheerleader for an avante garde architecture, the one who stood in IBM's offices and rejected every design they offered that was based solely around PowerPC because, despite being able to be made more quickly, cost-effectively, and offering an easier upgrade path for developers,… Read more

Looking at the 360 and the PS3, no one in their right mind would choose the PS3's design. Read more

Blu-Ray offers the advantage of greater capacity, but the disadvantage of slower data transfer (compared to DVD). Next-gen that will change, since BD-ROM drives have gotten faster and cheaper, and it's likely both new systems from Microsoft and Sony will support it. Read more

Who knows, maybe (as another commenter suggested in a different thread) him overseeing the PS3 fiasco will help him avoid such problems in the future. Maybe that's their thinking? Never can tell. :) Read more

Now, that's a very good point, now that you mention it. But isn't that an argument for keeping him as head of the game group so that PS4 development goes down a different road, rather than promoting him to head of the whole company? Read more

Wow, thanks for your kind comments. :) It was the first thing I thought of when I saw the recent ads for Soul Calibur V, that they seemed to be trying to appeal to DoA fans. Read more

Yes, but one that I'm not willing to give up digital distribution for. The day I stepped on disc one of Skies of Arcadia for Dreamcast I was forever more a fan of digital distribution. :) Read more